ReviewEuropean journal of pediatrics2020
Are early visual behavior impairments involved in the onset of autism spectrum disorders? Insights for early diagnosis and intervention.
Review in European journal of pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association of food hypersensitivity in children with the risk of autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Visual function and autism spectrum disorder.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- Sensory-based visual attention in autism: from normalization to adaptive support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Review
- Mapping Resting-State Brain Functional Specialization to Neurotransmitter Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Article
- Rapid Eye Movements in Sleep Furnish a Unique Probe into the Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Development of the Visual Brain: Implications for Autism Research.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Relationship between autism spectrum disorder and peripapillary intraretinal layer thickness: a pediatric retrospective cross-sectional study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Haptic and visuo-haptic impairments for object recognition in children with autism spectrum disorder: focus on the sensory and multisensory processing dysfunctions.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- A Potential Biomarker of Brain Activity in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Pilot fNIRS Study in Female Preschoolers.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Volumetric Analysis of Amygdala and Hippocampal Subfields for Infants with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Visual-motor involvement in autism spectrum disorder: could the stereopsis deficit affect motor coordination?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Why do children with autism spectrum disorder have abnormal visual perception?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Behavioural Differences in Sensorimotor Profiles: A Comparison of Preschool-Aged Children with Sensory Processing Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorders.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Multidisciplinary Telerehabilitation Approach for Supporting Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Families: An Italian Digital Platform in Response to COVID-19.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Caregivers' Burden of School-Aged Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Implications for Family-Centred Care.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Objective and Subjective Evaluation of Saccadic Eye Movements in Healthy Children and Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Pilot Study.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Computer-aided autism diagnosis based on visual attention models using eye tracking.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Distribution of Visual and Oculomotor Alterations in a Clinical Population of Children with and without Neurodevelopmental Disorders.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Visual Sensory Experiences From the Viewpoint of Autistic Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Neonatal curcumin treatment restores hippocampal neurogenesis and improves autism-related behaviors in a mouse model of autism.Psychopharmacology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
A correct use of the visual behavior (VB), and its integration with motor function, represents the earliest mean used by infants to explore and act on the social and non-social surrounding environment. The aim of this mini review is to present influential evidence of abnormalities in the VB domain in ASD individuals and to discuss the implication of these findings for early identification and intervention. We analyzed the possible anomalies in oculomotor abilities, visual attention, and visual-motor integration, as parts of a wider visual behavior defect, that could affect children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) since the early stages of development.Conclusion: According to the literature, difficulties in these three areas have been often reported in children with ASD, and the visual-perception deficit could have cascading effects on learning processes and on social development. Despite this evidence of atypical VB in ASD, their investigation is not yet included into diagnostic processes, and they are not yet considered a specific treatment target.What is Known:•Atypical social use of visual behavior is one the first symptoms in children with autism spectrum disorders•Individuals with autism spectrum disorders often show unusual visual exploration of the surrounding environmentWhat is New:•It is possible to hypothesize that early visual behavior abnormalities may affect experiences that permit learning processes and social and communicative development in infants•An early assessment of visual behavior, as a core symptom of ASD, might improve the diagnostic processes and might help to developing more individualized treatments.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.